This standard is maintained by XBRL International, an international non-profit consortium of approximately 450 major companies, organizations, and government agencies around the world. It is an open standard, provided free of license fees, and is already being used in numerous countries.
Combined with âstep-upâ authentication, context-based authentication optimizes a layered approach to access security by assessing user login attributes and matching them against pre-defined security policies. When security policies are met, users are granted immediate access.
The example uses a device context for the application window as the reference device context. (The system stores the resolution data for this device in the enhanced-metafile's header.) The application retrieves a handle identifying this device context by calling the GetDC function.